Mother Goose Murders

Beneath the sweet hum of lullabies and the promise of sugar-dusted delights lies something far darker.

Charlotte, known to children only as Mother Goose, is a woman of warmth, wit, and wickedness. Behind her twinkling eyes and singsong voice hides a taste for flesh and a talent for deception. Wandering from town to town, she lures wayward children with melodies and candy, spinning tales of enchanted lands-only to lead them to their grisly end.

After years on the move, Charlotte finds a perfect hiding place in the heart of a bustling city, where she takes up residence in the dank cellar beneath a butcher's shop. With access to knives, brine, and smokehouses, she refines her dark craft. She becomes a silent fixture in a hidden underworld of morbid commerce-selling golden locks to the wig maker and feeding her "special cuts" to the butcher's curious clientele.

But even monsters have confidants. When a friendship turns sour and her secret slips, Charlotte is captured and thrown into a grim, iron-barred cell. There, she meets a sharp-tongued, sharp-eyed cellmate with a history just as bloodstained as her own. Against all odds, a romance blossoms in the shadow of the gallows.

Torn between a newfound love and the inevitability of justice, Charlotte must confront the ghostly weight of her past. As the rope tightens and her lullabies fade, Mother Goose becomes a chilling legend-part nursery rhyme, part cautionary tale.

The Ballad of Mother Goose is a dark and lyrical horror novel that reimagines a beloved figure through a blood-soaked lens. Twisted, tragic, and strangely tender, it asks the question: how much of a monster was born, and how much was made?